Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-04-07
ALASKA CORRESPONDENCE.
what Some of she Miners Say al
the Country.

Wna6 some OF tne mIneEs say ~
the Country.
The following letters are taken from
the Alaska Free Press, published at
Juneau, under date Of March 10:
MOUTH OF STEWART RIVER, Nov. %.
Friends John Leary and Neal Nc
Cloud: | drop you a few lines to let you
know how things are running on the
Yukon. Dick and l went to Sixty.Mile
Creek on the Goth of August, and found
a few small points of bars that paid to
work. We took u boat up about sixty
miles, and then carried our grub, blank.
cts and tools about seventy miles fur
Their. Here we found several small bars
that would pay from S4 to Sc per day,
but they would not last a great while.
All we seen here would not amount to
any more than q Winters grub stake for
three men. Was on McQuestin's bar,
and washed out six pans of gravel, but
did not get a color. There is a little
gold here on bedrock, and some pieces
will weigh about a grain, but there is not
enough to pay. We went back to Sixty
Mile Creek, and upon our arrival we
found there was a big excitement and a
stampede for Forty.Mile Creek. Frank
lin, Lambert, O'Brien and others went
there about the time we went up Six.
Mile Creek, and Franklin and O'Brien
had got back and reported fine prospects
Of coarse gold; and that they had found
pay for sixty miles up the creek and OF
twelve creeks putting into it from either
side. They left four or five dollars in
dust with Harper, and some of the
pieces weighed over fifty cents. They
had started back to Winter before / ar
rived, and did not get to see them.
Brown, who came with Stewart and
Fiannery, went there with Maiden.
They rocked several days and, / have it
on good authority, they cleaned up from
IS to SIS per day apiece. The creek
runs through a canyon and the bars are
small bedrock bars carrying fat gold.
We killed a big, fat bull moose on our
trip. T. KERRIeAN.
STEWART AND YUKON RIVERS,
November %.
D. II. Murphy-Dear Sir: I arrived
here the first day of November, and had
l been two days later could not have
made it, as / had to travel four and one-
half days with the floating ice; got in
my boat and let the ice take me along.
/ run at the rate of ten miles an hour in
some places, occasionally getting into a
jam whore the old boat would crack like
a good one. But hard luck don't last
always, for when / arrived here found q
cabin already built, and all l had to do
was to move in and build a Fireplace out
of rocks, which was not such a pleasant
job when one has to pack wood and
thaw out the ground to a depth of two
feet before reaching the proper kind of
mud. But we are now in good quarters
for the Winter. Thirty.six degrees be.
low zero is the coolest we have had it so
far.
There has been quite an excitement
here about a poisoning scrape, for par
t~iculars of which see a little l wrote to
p. Corcoran.
There has been coarse gold diggings
found forty miles below Fort Reliance,
or l20 miles from heye. About half of
the men that had intended to Winter
here have gone there. OF course the ex-
tent of the new strike is not known. 1t
seems that a man by the name of Frank
lin found the place, which is on Forty.
Mile Creek. The coarse gold bars com.
mence twelve miles from the mouth, ex.
tending sixty miles up, but the best
prospects are obtained from the small
streams that put into the main creek
from either side. Franklin claims he
has got a gravel bar $50 feet long by
three feet deep, and intends to work it
with sluice. boxes. Steel had built him.
self a cabin here intending to Winter in
it, but he could not resist the tempta.
ton that the new strike offers, so him
and his ''klooch vamoosed the ranch.
| send you a map Of a portion of this
country. 1t may not be correct but, l
think, it will interest many and be easily
understood. j. G. STITT.
Albany Argus: Since the adjournment
of Congress a quiet movement has been